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Ivy

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Words and art by ksenia kolodka

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Every day I walk home from campus alongside an ivy path. I started this piece with a different idea in mind, but when I flipped the fabric over I saw the labyrinthine path of thread on the back. It’s easy, yet dangerous, to fall into habit. It’s important to take your eyes off the path once in a while and admire what lies above or, in this case, behind it.

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